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Week starting Friday, December 27, 2013

Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei brings to Houston more than 160 works of art that highlight the artistic and cultural contributions of imperial rulers in China.

During Yuletide: Holiday Time at Bayou Bend, Detective Days bring Yuletide to life! These self-guided activity sheets for children provide a focused activity with goals requiring a keen eye and critical thinking. Pick one up[…]

Look, discover, and create during Winter Break at the Museum. Families can have fun together sketching works of art, joining a storytime circle in the galleries, investigating artworks, and watching family films. Everyone's invited! Schedule[…]

This family film is recommended for ages 7+. Admission These screenings are included with your Museum admission. General admission to the MFAH is free on Thursdays, courtesy of Shell. In this wryly inventive parable, a[…]

In conjunction with the exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, this tour focuses on the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, 18th-century American artists who left the colonies to[…]

During Yuletide: Holiday Time at Bayou Bend, Detective Days bring Yuletide to life! These self-guided activity sheets for children provide a focused activity with goals requiring a keen eye and critical thinking. Pick one up[…]

In the 1950s, artist Antonio Berni embarked on a lifelong project chronicling the lives of two fictitious characters: Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Berni constructed his iconic protagonists with found materials from Argentina’s slums to expose the[…]

Look, discover, and create during Winter Break at the Museum. Families can have fun together sketching works of art, joining a storytime circle in the galleries, investigating artworks, and watching family films. Everyone's invited! Schedule[…]

From ancient caves to contemporary art, patterns and designs have always been a part of artistic expression. On this 45-minute tour, visit works of art in the galleries that stretch across time and continents, and[…]

Food has always been an immediate and readily available subject that artists could use to show off their technical skills and to share other cultural, familial, and religious symbolism. This delicious tour of artworks in[…]